Animated Wallpaper

[Ephesians]

Anyone have any bright ideas on how to make animated wallpaper?

[Sastraxi]

Why do you need to make one? I find they never look good :/

[Ephesians]

Just curiosity. I wanted to see how it was done. I was thinking of toying with an animated wallpaper and tying it into animated icons.

[joey o.]

Any exe will run as *.scr. just change the .exe extention to .scr. and put it in system32. Browse for the file and load it through screen properties. Look up some screen saver code and make sure you pass the correct args to keep from getting multiple instances, hide your cursor, close on mouse action, ect. Also keep in mind it should (might have to be) one form. Others might know if API calls are taboo or not. Good luck and post this when your done. I want to see it.

[Ephesians]

Unfortunately I cannot use an exe or an scr because its a locked-down desktop environment. I think I'll have to function on API calls instead if possible. Any other ideas people?

[HMPA]

use a html document... u can include html documents to u wallpaper... but only in windows me to upper

[PsychoMark]

Win98 can do that too, and I think even Win95 if you install IE. It's what they call 'Active Desktop'. Don't see any use for it though, only slows down the system...

[HMPA]

That's right PsychoMark, but only in the windows me to better the IE5 or better is installed by default, u can make a program thinking in probability... Then, the better way is to instal the version IE5 as required y u comercial aplication.

[Ephesians]

Thanks, gentleman. I thought I would have to go that route and I'll consider it. If anyone has any other ideas please let me know.

[Nirces]

which ever way you do it, it is going to serioiusly slow down the computer